objectives: the aim of this study was to assess nutritional status and identify the most significant mna-items (mini nutritional assessment) to accelerate the determination of nutritional risk of heart-failure in elderly patients. methods and materials: the present research was a cross-sectional descriptive analytical survey on hospitalized heart- failure elderly patients (n=225). the sampling ...

Ordinal-scale items—say items that assess agreement with a proposition on an ordinal rating scale from strongly disagree to agree—are exceedingly popular in psychological research. A common research question concerns the comparison of response distributions ordinal-scale across conditions. In this context, there is often lingering whether metric-level descriptions results and parametric tests a...

In this note, we summarize our research interests in the general area of integrating planning capabilities into scheduling technologies. Our recent work has focused on the development of an agent-based calendar scheduling system, where intelligent agents schedule meetings on behalf of busy users. In accomplishing this task, the principal objective to date has been to schedule meetings in a way ...

We consider a revenue maximization problem where we are selling a set of items, each available in a certain quantity, to a set of bidders. Each bidder is interested in one or several bundles of items. We assume the bidders’ valuations for each of these bundles to be known. Whenever bundle prices are determined by the sum of single item prices, this algorithmic problem was recently shown to be i...

This data article provides detailed optimization input and output datasets and optimization code for the published research work titled "Dynamic green supplier selection and order allocation with quantity discounts and varying supplier availability" (Hamdan and Cheaitou, 2017, In press) [1]. Researchers may use these datasets as a baseline for future comparison and extensive analysis of the gre...